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Besides Proto-Indoeuropean, what would be the list of the 10 most acurately reconstructed Proto-languages?

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How does propitius (“favorable, well-disposed") semantically relate to PIE root *per- (1) "forward")?

proto-indo-european

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Please help me understand Hamblin's Alternative Semantics theory of questions

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X-bar tree diagram [closed]

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Why isn't there a [mj]/m̃ in the IPA?

ipa nasalization

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Is there a clear linguistic reason for Swiss German not being considered its own Germanic language?

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how to draw X-Bar Theory and trees [closed]

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Flesch-Kincaid reading ease formula coefficients [duplicate]

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What is the name of the property of what part of the tongue produces the sound?

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How do you get the semantic type from denotations and determine monotonicity of individual substitutes? [closed]

semantics formal-semantics noun-phrases

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What is the semantic type of the expression NOT in "Tina but not John"?

semantics formal-semantics

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Do men have more trouble than women pronouncing alveolo-palatals (like ɕ)? Or are there other physiological factors involved?

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What does 'anterodorsal' mean?

phonetics terminology

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Why is IPA Transcriptions of Georgian so inconsistent?

phonology phonetics georgian

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When to use ं versus म् in the end of a word in a sentence [closed]

sanskrit

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How many marked cases are there for regular nouns in English?

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How can you computationally apply a grammar rule to a sentence?

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Are alveolo-palatal consonants more likely to be followed by high vowels, whereas retroflex consonants are more likely followed by low vowels?

phonology corpora chinese polish

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Spontaneous speech is to transcription as read speech is to what?

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Can an object be in functional case A even though it's declined like case B?

cases german declension finnish

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Why does it seem like (at least some) ancient European languages didn't have words for "yes" and "no"?

historical-linguistics vocabulary

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What does Head-Driven Phrase Structure grammar say about continuous verbs? [closed]

grammar phrase-structure

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Where to find native speakers for acceptability tests

resource-request field-linguistics

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theta role, infinitival phrase

syntax

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Why is PGmc hanhaną cogante with hōkaz, variant of hakô (“hook”) and not with hanhuz?

etymology

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With one click or in one click? [closed]

english phrases

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Is there a reason germanic languages are more different from other PIE languages?

historical-linguistics proto-indo-european indo-european germanic-languages

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Why are there grammars in languages in the first place?

grammar

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Textbook: “grammar behaves as if something is left behind after movement” — How so?

syntax movement

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Do bilinguals have smaller vocabularies in each language than monolinguals?

language-acquisition bilingualism

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Difference in meanings and use of words 'röra' and 'blanda' in Swedish [closed]

semantics vocabulary swedish

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What are the processes and mechanisms that create homo(nyms/phones/semes)?

language-change word-formation synonymy homonymy homophony

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How do we shape our language's lexicon?

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Reading suggestions on the historic development of the Arabic language

historical-linguistics arabic

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Where did the Greek consonant cluster "ps" come from

greek indo-european alphabets writing consonant-clusters

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Etymology of መለስ

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How do you draw a x-bar tree with negative inversion? [closed]

syntax grammar syntax-trees x-bar-theory transformations

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Other name for "Predeterminer"/"Noun Premodifier" Dependency Relation?

computational-linguistics parsing dependency-grammar

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Why do object pronouns precede the predicate in French, while R-expressions follow it?

syntax french phrase-structure

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What's the name of the principle that derives the sound of a symbol from the name of the thing that that the symbol depicts?

terminology alphabets writing

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In syntax trees, why aren't single-word phrases reduced to that word?

syntax grammar syntax-trees

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Can adjuncts modify nouns?

syntax grammar adjuncts constituents

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What is "mupigane" in Swahili? [closed]

verbs conjugation bantu

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Is there any rule based algorithm that can assess whether a word has "neutral" connotation?

computational-linguistics

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Materialization of nouns by adjectives

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Is one way to define a word, to choose the word closest to its meaning and add distinctive qualities?

lexical-semantics

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Software internationalisation - displaying gendered adjectives

adjectives gender

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